Quote of the Day

"Barnes continues:

Bush said it's difficult for many people to understand how serious the terrorist threat is. 'It's impossible for someone to have grown up in the 50s and 60s to envision a conflict with people that just kill mercilessly, using techniques that are kind of foreign to modern warfare. But it's real. I'm telling you, it's real.'

I grew up in the 1960's doing nuclear war drills in school. My next door neighbors in Wichita, Kansas had a bomb shelter in their back yard. On October 22, 1962 the president of United States went on television and told the American people that we were on the brink of nuclear war --- and we were. If he thinks that is somehow less frightening than bunch of suicide bombers and nutballs with box cutters, he truly is stupid."
--Blogger 'Digby' on the warped historical perspectives of the Bush cultists

[Andrew Sullivan has another example of the same mindset: That Soviet Union? No Big Deal]